For some men, the inflammation of their arteries is a result of really low good cholesterol.

Medicine is still all about treating populations, not people - one-size-fits all treatments and diagnoses.

Not only can consumers handle their personal genetic information, but they are getting genomically oriented and anchored about such data.

For diabetes in particular, we know there's a relationship between lack of glucose regulation and complications like blindness and kidney failure. So if you were diabetic and you knew that you could get your glucose in a tight, normal range just by adjusting your lifestyle, wouldn't that be great?

The ability to diagnose an imminent heart attack has long been considered the holy grail of cardiovascular medicine.

Chemotherapy is just medieval. It's such a blunt instrument. We're going to look back on it like we do the dark ages.

There are estimates that 2 to 3 percent of cancers in the U.S. each year are engendered by exposure to repetitive imaging.